A Review Investigating Women’s Marital Freedom and Reproductive Freedom

Abstract

In China, in many social situations, there is implicit discrimination against women. In a narrow sense, from the perspective of young people's entertainment projects, many bars have the phenomenon of "cutting cabbage", which means "boys get a lot of money, girls get free". In a broad sense, in China, many housewives live in unhappy places, and many female groups do not have the right to acquire real freedom of marriage and childbearing. The inadequacy in the gender equality field and many other disciplines is that researchers only analyze problems from a single standpoint, which is too absolutistic. To explore gender equality issues targeting childbearing in the current society, the author analyzes the current marriage status for women in China and investigates several social contexts in which women may suffer gender discrimination. Regarding the origin of several childbearing issues, the author also draws insight from the “heartbeat act” in the United States and evaluates the current status of the application of a few fertilization technologies that support women’s childbearing. With in-depth analysis, this paper concludes that government and the judicial system should step in and give more standardized and legalized protection for women’s right to childbearing freedom.